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Originally Posted by mickey85
Why will it take days?

There are two ways - either take a razor and go from center to end, then start peeling, or start at the finish end and just unroll. I've done it a number of times either way, and it takes all of 5 minutes. Max.
This was my experience as well. Unless someone got sloppy putting it on, this should do it - and possibly a bit of alcohol on a green scrub pad to clean up the residue under the tape if the shellac was super-saturated.
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